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Updated: June 17, 2025
"But for Marcantonio the appointment is good. When the late-returned Ambassador to His Most Christian Majesty did render his report before our Maggior Consiglio an oration diplomatic and of weight I noted many of our graver men with eyes observing Marcantonio closely, as they would mark how he weighed the speech of the old diplomatist." "And Marco?" "He seemed not to take note of them.
It was while he was conducting this campaign that the Doge Marcantonio Giustinian died, and Morosoni being elected in his place was crowned on his battleship at Porto Porro in Cephalonia. The carousals of the army and navy lasted for three days, at the new Doge's cost, the resources of the fleet having no difficulty in running to every kind of pageantry and pyrotechny.
Marcantonio Giustiniani had but lately returned from Rome, where, during his residence as Secretary to the Venetian Ambassador, the affair of the Venetian Patriarch Zani, which had roused such indignation in Venice, had taken place.
Leave them their heaven, who have no earthly paradise!" The lady's strength seemed failing, for the last words had come more painfully, though with a ring of passionate indignation. Again Marcantonio Giustiniani broke from his detaining colleagues in an attempt to reach his wife; and a second time the hands of the Councillors waved him back.
"All?" she had seemed to question him, leaning nearer, and Marcantonio could not answer; but he saw, from the deepening horror in her eyes, that she understood. She knew that he had helped to bring the doom. Oh, if he could but have told her that he had not voted that he had withheld his one little vote from Venice to comfort her!
The finding of his name among the birth records of the nobles of Venice, the registration witnessed by the three solemn Avvogadori, those officers of the law whose rulings in their department were inexorable, the act of confirmation before the Imperial Senate, whither, in grave procession, they immediately fared, preceded by the sacred "Libro d'Oro," upon which the oath of allegiance was sworn with bended knee the ceremony was soon over, and Marcantonio stood enrolled among the ruling body of the great Republic.
He secured the support of the Farnese and of the Orsini; in May, 1506, he married his own natural daughter Felice to Giangiordano Orsini of Bracciano, and in July of the same year he gave his niece, Lucretia Gara Rovere, sister of Niccolò, to Marcantonio Colonna as wife. Again Giulia Farnese vanished from sight, and neither under Julius II nor Leo X does she reappear.
He is to be trained for Venice, after the ways of the Ca' Giustiniani. And Marcantonio who knows?"
Marcantonio rallied from the heaviness of the morning and felt young again, as he yielded to their influence and wandered among them, tossing compliments and repartees with Venetian freedom. In the midst of this harmless trifling the voice of Giustinian Giustiniani sounded sternly.
"I do not understand," he said, with no perception of any humor in the situation. "It was the gift of the Reverend Father Paolo to the chapel of the Servi," Marcantonio explained. "The Madonna del Sorriso was well known in Rome."
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